1884.] V. A. Smitli— Gold Goins of the lynperlal Gupta Dynasty. 201 
B. M. Prinsep ; resembles Marsden’s MLV ; men. imperfect: wt. 
141-4. {Plate IV, jig. 9.) 
A. C. ; 2 specimens, no details stated. 
The reader may perhaps be surprised at my treating this variety of 
coins bearing Skanda’s name as of donbtfnl attribution. My reasons are : 
(1) the heavy wt. of the two coins weighed, which is nearly that of the 
coins of Nara Gupta and the other imitators of the imperial Gupta coin¬ 
age ; (2) the rude style of the coins ; (3) the crescent under the king’s 
arm in the B. M. specimens, as in Kara Gupta’s coins ; (4) the title 
‘ Kramaditya,’ which may be compared with the title Baladitya of hTara 
Gupta; witli Vikramaditya on the rude coin (Marsden MLI) bearing the 
name of Chandra, and with ‘ Chandraditya,’ the title of Yishnu Gupta 
(^Thomas, Indo-Scythian coins with Hindi Legends.')'^ It is very unfor¬ 
tunate that we do not know the weights of the coins figured by Prinsep, 
and only know those coins through the medium of engravings which do 
not appear to be very good. The B. M. Prinsep coin does not exactly 
agree with any of the three coins engraved in the Essays. For the 
present I am disposed to regard this ‘ Kramaditya ’ variety of the gold 
coins bearing Skanda’s name as a posthumous issue. It is quite possible 
that the silver coins of Skanda with the Kramaditya legend may also be 
posthumous, as some of the silver coins struck in the name of Kumara 
Gupta appear to be. {Sir D. G. Bayley in Num. Ghron. for 1882, pp. 155 
and 156, with references to opinions of Dr. Bilhler and Gent. Cunningham,i) 
KARA GUPTA BALADITYA. 
Archer Type. 
{Not included in J. A. S. B. XXIV, catal.; nor in Rev. Catal.') 
Ohv. King to left, bow in 1., arrow in r. hand, and bird-standard, 
as in Archer coins of Chandra Gupta II, but very rudely 
executed; a letter, which generally appears to be either 
‘ Gu ’ or ‘ S'ri,’ between king’s legs. Under 1. arm T; no mar¬ 
ginal legend visible. 
Rev. Goddess on lotus-fiower seat, with fillet and flower, very 
rudely executed ; mon. sometimes wanting ; legend 
‘ Baladitya.’ 
* The title Vikramaditya is used in the authentic Swordsman and Umbrella gold 
coins and in some of the silver coins of Chandra Gupta II, but the titles ending in 
dditya appear to have been specially favoured by the princes who issued the rude 
coins. Gen. Cunningham has two specimens of Vishnu Gupta’s coinage. 
